The recent visit of three hundred and fifty of the
leading citizens of the English-speaking Province of Ontario to the Roman Catholic and French-speaking Province of Quebec is a political event of the first importance. The pioneer of this bonne entente movement is Colonel Cockshutt, the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, and it would be difficult to over-estimate the beneficial results which might come from the closer personal contact between the two races in Canada. Public opinion in Ontario has been impressed by the very warm welcome -which was given to the visitors in Montreal and Quebec. At a time when the divergent interests of the Maritime Provinces of Eastern and Western Canada are being emphasized in the Press this demonstration that the French-speaking and English-speaking parts of the popu- lation are Canadians first and foremost is very gratifying. The example of the two races in Canada might well be followed in South Africa and Ireland. A bonne entente is badly needed in both these countries.
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